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All right. Thanks, baby.

What? What? You the man. You the man.

Know what I am sayin? Thanks, b. What I owe you?

Just pass the ball sometime.

Nigger, take this trash!

What's up, b? Sheepskin is phat!

Word up! Moms bought this for my birthday, man.

You know what I am sayin? Happy birthday.

You better not put that in your locker.

You crazy? I sleeps with my coat on.

What? Hey, man!

Hey, yo!

All right! What's up?

Hey, yo, we gettin a new coach. Say word.

Word. They just hired him today.

I heard he was good. He used to coach college.

Ooh. We got bad luck, know what I am sayin?

Oh, yeah. Oh, baby.

Carlton, stop lookin at her butt.

Thanks, miss saroka. As I was sayin, this guy...

Ronnie. He says to me,

"Phyllis, you are better than this. You are a star.

You just have not found your thing yet."

And this moved me, Marisa, because I always knew I was gonna be great at something.

And then he says, "we are going back to St. Croix...

And gettin us a restaurant."

I said, "Ronnie, you are insane." And this is the beauty part.

He says, "Phil, you got 20 years in. You can retire."

Yeah?

Miss. I have three words for you.

Condom. I am serious.

Yo, butter, when you gonna start passin that rock?

Talk to me after you get your first piece of punany.

Shorty, you still aint got no ass yet?

Stupid, I got mad females on mine. Name one.

Cheryl. Whose Cheryl? Hey, space.

You ever see shorty with a girl named Cheryl?

You a liar and your breath stink!

Anyway, check it. This shit really happened. There was some real shit.

Put your hands up. Okay? See? Now you have a chance.

Up!

These kids are driving me crazy, sal.

I mean, I am out of here after this year.

Ronnies right. I am just goin through the motions. I did it, miss saroka.

Good, Shirley. There is gotta be more.

So you are really gonna do this St. Croix thing?

You bet. We are saving up all our cash and we are gone.

That's terrific! Congratulations. Thanks, bud.

Oh! Collect the balls!

Bye, sal. See ya later. See ya.

Phil? Hey, Phil!

Phil. They are havin a mixer at the canarsie Jewish center.

Happy to hear that, Morris. I thought you might wanna go...

Mix it up with me a little.

I don't think my boyfriend Ronnie would appreciate that.

When did this come in? Wasabi walked out last week.

He could not take it. The basketball team was 2 and 17 last year.

How much does it pay? Two hundred hours at 27.50 per, but...

Oh, Jesus!

They pumpin the flavor slow jams.

The old school, ya know what I am sayin?

All the fellas up in there grindin up on their women.

Down south, so you know what that means.

Sweatin jheri-curl juice everywhere!

For real, though, you know. But I am up in the house, representin Brooklyn.

- All right. - I got this one honey, ya know what I am sayin?

I am all tight up on her. I am slobbin her down and whatnot, right?

So I figure, after this, its on. We get outside and, like, bam!

Like, "yo, you wanna go to this hotel across the street?"

Honey look up at me all hurt and shit.

I am like, "baby, what's wrong?" You know what she says?

What? She said you a stink-ass nigger,

true. True.

She asked me how come I aint offered to buy her a chicken.

A chicken?

This is stupid, right?

That's what I said, but I looked up across the street.

All these dudes is buyin their girls live chickens.

Word to my mother. I am tellin you, b.

Down south, its like a custom.

You gotta buy a girl a chicken to get the punany.

You bought her the chicken?

Did I buy it?

Man, she looked so fine, man. Shit, I would have kidnapped the colonel.

Ya know what I am sayin? The kid is sick, man!

- You gonna kill yourself, boy. - Hey, yo, yo, yo, yo. We gots

yo, this is gonna be our year. Know what I am sayin? We gots to keep it movin.

So on the count of three, ya all know what time it is.

Keep it real, ya all. No doubt. One, two, three.

Represent!

Miss saroka?

Hi.

I am miss saroka. I am your new coach.

I know we gonna lose every game now.

- Aw, come on. - This is bullshit, b.

You want us to break in shirts and skins and scrimmage?

Right. Break into shirts and skins and scrimmage.

I aint playin for no lady coach, b.

- The starters against the scrubs? - Exactly.

Hey, yo, shorty. What's wrong with you?

I am here to play. Yeah, well, I aint playin for no lady.

Thank you. That's why we lost so many games last year.

Cause you all be actin like a bunch of bitches.

Come on, butter. You run with me.

Me, you, Kurt, drano, and we will take busy.

The rest of ya all, just take ya alls shirts off.

Yo, yo, yo! Pass the ball!

I am open! I am open!

I got it.

Shoot it!

Man, I got it!

Watch out, man! I got the ball!

T ake it up, dre.

Ho! Ho!

Oh, sh... Shorty!

Oh, damn. Your stitches opened back up. Damn, dre!

It'll take a while to get used to a lady coach.

We never had no coach. That's one of our biggest problems.

The other biggest problem is, everybody wants to shoot;

Nobody wants to pass or play "d."

We could be good if we played like a team. Everybody out for self, you know?

Yeah. See, I am smart. That's how

come they call me shorty doo-wop.

But I am gonna play tall like anfernee hardaway. That's the man.

He make his whole team better. He do not need to score 50.

How did you get those stitches in your head, shorty? This aint nothin.

I will be all right. I will be all right.

Just make sure you get to practice tomorrow, all right?

Okay. Go inside.

Right, coach?

Hey, Pete! How are ya? Hi.

Hey, Charlie. Missed a spot. Hey.

Everybody is a critic.

Ronnie, I am home!

Ronnie!

Ronnie?

Charlie! Charlie, I have been robbed!

What? I have been robbed! Call 911.

Come on. We will use my phone. Okay.

Come on.

There do not seem to be any signs of forced entry.

Maybe we should put together a list of what's missing.

Yeah, okay.

You got serial numbers for this stuff?

The TV, VCR, camera?

I do not know. I will have to check.

How about family heirlooms? Jewelry?

Son of a bitch!

Oh, god, he was good. Hmm.

A real pro, ya know? You know what, Phil?

In one year, you have been dumped by more guys...

Than I met in the last ten years.

This is really true. You should feel good about that.

No. No. I am not doin this anymore. I am done with this.

I am not havin any more dinners about guys who dumped me.

If I do have any more dinners about guys who dumped me, I am not havin them here.

Chinese?

Uh-uh.

I am havin them in my restaurant in St. Croix.

Save me the corner booth. No, man, I am serious.

I can do this, ya know? I can buy into this restaurant.

By yourself?

Yeah, by myself.

I got a plan.

I got this coaching job today. What I will do is I will eat peanut butter and jelly.

I will save every cent, and I will get this restaurant.

Hey, butter. Butter, butter, butter!

Hey, coach, you should play a man on "d."

What?

Look at Andre. He wanna be like Mike. Boom!

Too bad he aint. Coach, come on. Let me play.

I told ya. You ca not play till you get your stitches out.

Yo, miss, that's a foul, right?

Aint no foul, man. Stop cryin. Foul.

Thank you.

Shorty. You are inside.

Take your hat off and pull your pants up. Please.

You sound just like my moms.

Look at that. Look at butter.

Butter! Butter! Butter!

If he was less of a nut, fellas would have wide-open shots.

My ball! My ball! Miss, that's a foul, right?

Its a foul.

Oh, my god, man!

Pass the rock! Why do not you pass the rock?

Pass the rock! Hey, coach, why you so serious today?

I am just tryin to watch the scrimmage here.

Nah, somethin happened. I can tell.

I tell my mother the same thing when something is wrong.

I can see it in her face. Does your mother ever tell you to mind your own business?

Every day.

See, busy-bee. He do not belong on this team.

Why do you say that? Look at him.

I mean, he got the same glasses

his mother comes to every game, even though he do not play.

You should make him a water boy. Him and spaceman. Mm-hmm.

The psychopath over there on the bench.

Butter! Butter!

They should never, ever play.

Look at drano. He got a sweet shot.

But he is scared to shoot.

Shoot it!

Shoot it, baby. Shoot it!

What about you? You know so much. You perfect?

I am as close as you got on this team.

Mm-hmm.

- All right. - Okay, everybody, gather round.

All right. Whoa.

All right. We got a scrimmage game tomorrow at 3:15.

So nobody be late. Okay? Good work.

Hmm.

Aw, look at this guy.

Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh!

Shh! Quiet!

Throw him out the window! Throw him out the window! Word up! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah!

Will you shut up?

You shut up, bitch!

Sit on a twizzler, asshole!

Shh! That's my coach. Be cool.

Five, six, seven, eight. Watch this!

When you said that joke about the twizzlers...

Oh, my god, that was funny.

It was a good flick, huh? That movie was phat.

Do not worry about winning. All right, mom.

Kisses and swishes for you and you.

Hey, butter! The coach looks like a chia pet!

Okay. Come on, everyone. Gather round. Gather round.

Okay. This is only a scrimmage game.

So, just take it easy. Just do what we have been practicin.

What? What?

What we been practicin. Last year we played a 2-3.

Nah, b. Last year we played the box and one.

You do not know what you are talkin about.

No, we played the man-to-man.

Crazy. Miss? What defense you want us to play?

Play what you played last year.

Yo, man, we played the 2-3. No, we did not.

- We played the 2-3. What are you talkin about? - Get up. Keep it clean.

"D" up!

Kurt, you aint got no "d," man.

Hey, shorty. Call the police. Your rock just got stolen.

Remember this? This means you wanna call a time-out.

Ah, yes, yes. We went through that last week.

I aint getting no help on the boards. You think we should rotate?

This fool do not play his man. He gotta pick up his head.

Pass the ball. What ya all gotta do is stop sweatin me!

Just chill! What's up, coach?

Rotate!

Do not know nothin, man!

Why she here?

Get on him, man!

Come on, shorty. Lets go, lets go, lets go! Run.

Push! Come on! Foul?

You stink! Man, my grandma even plays better than you!

Butt-naked, in flip-flops! Yeah, right.

That's why she gotta wear a belt to hold her skin up.

Keep my grandma out of this, and I will keep this outta your grandma.

I got somethin for your chocolate ass! I got somethin for your grandma!

I got somethin!

Chill out, man!

Time-out! Time-out! What ya doin, man?

Take butter out. That's his fourth foul. Its the start of the third quarter!

- Let me go in, coach! - Sit down! I aint gonna get no more fouls.

Let me stay in. Forget shorty. He do not know...

We ca not afford to lose him. Stay in, but be careful.

I am gonna be careful. Come on, shorty.

- Miss? - What "d" are we in?

What's wrong with you, man?

I was not doin shit out there, coach.

You, you, you and you, you are in!

What are you doin? I am making a substitution.

Why? So nobody else fouls out!

Nobody else is in foul trouble.

If you do not know how to coach, you should not have took this job.

Probably just want a goddamn paycheck!

Damn! You ought to chill. You gonna break this backboard.

Good afternoon, everyone!

Okay. Today we are gonna work on what is called the 3-2 zone defense.

Everybody, gather round.

Hey, yo, butter. You hear somethin?

I do not hear nothin, yo.

Uh, I said, gather around!

Shorty, you hear somethin? I do not hear nothin.

Lets go. Mustve been the wind.

That's ewing and starks doing the old-fashioned scissors cut.

The old-fashioned scissors cut. Look that up.

Scissors cut.

Well, the Knicks had their problems earlier tonight,

but they have been sparked by Anthony Mason...

- Hey. - Whoa!

Okay, guys. Listen up.

Today we are gonna practice the scissors cut using shorty, butter and Kurt.

Butter, you hear somethin? I do not hear nothin.

Dre, you hear somethin? Yo, I do not hear nothin.

Mustve been the wind. I do not appreciate this, you guys. Its not funny.

Lets go. Lets get inside.

♪ I am high till I die loc till they smoke me ♪

♪ I am high till I die loc till they smoke me ♪

Damn, ya all, man! Come on! We got a game, man!

♪ Loc till they smoke me the shit do not stop

♪ shit do not stop

gather round.

Come on over. So what kind of defense we gonna play today, coach?

I do not know what the hell is so goddamn funny.

Yo, shorty! You are the ones that have to play today.

Give me some of that chocolate. I got the munchies.

Lets go! Lets go!

Shorty, quit playin!

Pass it! Pass it!

Doo-wop, doo-wop, doo-wop. Pass the ball!

Doo-wop! Shorty! What the hell is he doin?

H e is trippin!

What is he doing?

- Coach? What's going on with this guy? - I do not know.

This kid is crazy.

Get back! Get back!

Yo, butter, take it out! Take the ball out! You take it out!

Guys!

You are right there!

Call a time-out! Coach?

You closer, man. Take it out! Someone.

Stupid. T.o.

Oh, good.

- Okay, shorty, you are out. Busy, get in there. - Sit down, busy.

I am stayin in. But she just said I am goin in.

I do not care what she said. Sit down before I beat you down.

Busy, get in there!

You wanna coach? Fine. You coach. Put the cheerleaders in!

All right, I am the coach. Everybody get a man on "d."

Lets go! Come on!

Coach, where you goin? We got a game.

Get out of here!

Play!

Oh, man!

Hey, butter! Your mom got fired from the sperm bank for drinkin on the job!

Oh, please!

You gonna play "d" or what, Kurt? You lazy bastard!

Comin in!

Listen up, you guys. Listen up!

What the hell she doin up in here? Yeah.

You are embarrassed? You ought to be more embarrassed about the way you played tonight!

You ought to be embarrassed about the way you coached. Word up.

I never, in my whole life, been as embarrassed as I was out

yeah, well, if we had a coach, which we do not,

would not nobody have to worry about bein embarrassed.

Word. You ca not coach, miss.

Face it. Why do not you just quit?

I am not gonna quit, cause I do not wanna quit.

I am not gonna quit. That's the end of that discussion.

Its gonna be a long season.

All right. Now I am gonna tell you guys the truth.

I am not a coach. Oh, no!

Oh, like you are really foolin somebody. Big shocker.

But I am very smart, and I am very capable.

I do not drink. I am not coach wasabi.

And I am committed to winning.

All right. Now, to be a good coach,

I need you guys to teach me some things.

Walk me through some plays.

I know it sounds crazy, but if you show me some stuff about basketball,

I will show you some stuff about winning.

Because I ca not stand to watch you guys get your asses kicked the way you did tonight.

I would shoot myself before I would go through a season like that.

Whose gonna help me?

Please.

Not me.

You are on your own.

Coach, I gotta tell you somethin. We aint stupid.

- I know that. - If you never lie to us, we wo not ever be mad at you.

Word up.

Hey, yo, what up, shorty doo-wop?

I will check you out later. Gotta chill my coach for a minute.

That's real. Hey, yo, lets be out.

Anyway...

This is a 2-3 defense.

Whose this? This is me.

This is drano. This is Andre.

This is butter. This is Kurt.

I am tellin you, man. For real? I am gonna transfer.

This school aint doin nothin for me. I ca not get in college like this.

Last year we 0 and 300. Know what I am sayin?

Damn! The bus is late again. Again?

This school suck, man. Servin us spiced ham sandwiches.

How I supposed to dunk eatin spiced ham?

We forfeited two games last season cause of this bus driver.

Ah, shorty, stop cryin. We would have lost them anyway.

Shut up, man.

Boo-yah!

Ah! Finally!

Okay, everybody, get your stuff. Lets get on the bus.

Come on. Hurry up!

What ya doin, man? Lets go. Move it.

Do not take my seat, man. Hey, you are 20 minutes late.

From now on, you are to be here early, you got me?

Its only natural honeys be sweatin me, man.

I am hittin 20 points a game.

Ya know what I am sayin? My pockets stay phat.

So I am hittin the skins on the regular.

I am in the shower the other night with this honey.

She gonna say to me... Nigger, with your broke ass?

And you are stupid too. Big 30-year-old ass nigger still in the tenth grade.

"What you need to do is get your ass out of the shower before I call your mama."

That's what she said. Big stupid...

Everybody a comedian, man.

You do not know nothin.

Do you smell that?

I do not smell nothin.

What is that I smell? What the hell is that?

Whoever it is that is smokin pot better put it out right now.

Ooh!

What the hell was that?

Transmission.

- What's the matter with the transmission? - Its broken.

What do you mean, "its broken"? Its broken!

You mean we got no transmission?

Did you hear that? We got no transmission!

No tranny?

Well, call somebody.

Who the hell am I supposed to call? Somebody!

Figure it out! We have got a game to play!

A bus! Open this door!

Busy! Go across the street! Get the bus!

Everybody, off the bus!

Everybody, get off the bus.

Hey, wait! Wait, wait, wait!

Come on!

Go! You are in big trouble, bud!

Okay. Who can help us out with some correct change?

Where the hell were you? Our bus broke down. I am really sorry.

You are about two minutes away from a forfeit. Okay.

Hi. Coach Phyllis saroka, sunset park.

Come on, sunset!

I am gonna play your shit all night. You gonna be my bitch!

That was a foul! That was a foul, was not it?

- Yeah, that was a foul, coach. - Referee. Excuse me, referee.

You really think that, honey? Sit down and let me do my job!

You are a real son of a bitch, you know that?

Hey, coach, technical foul. You ca not do that.

Coach, you ca not go cursin a ref out like that.

I am sorry. Lets just play "d," all right?

Mad "d." Mad "d." Ya all got that?

Yo, spaceman, get up. Coach, you sit there, all right?

Do not let him do that! Do not let him do that!

Go, butter! Put it up!

Defense!

Get off-

Come on, you guys! Get him! Stop that guy!

Punk-ass bitch!

Mm-mm-mm!

Come on! Come on!

They had you psyched out from the word "go"!

You guys do not even seem angry about it.

I do not know what I am gonna do.

Nobody saw how they were treatin me out there?

Is there anybody on this whole team who is not afraid?

Uh-uh. No, no. You do no t wanna do that.

Do not do that. No, no!

♪

Yes! Yes!

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Intentional foul on 3-2 red.

Shooting two shots. Yellow possession.

That was not an intentional foul.

Sit down. Shut up. It was a hard foul, but he did not mean anything by it.

Sit down and shut up, goddamn it!

Do not be talkin to my coach like that! Wanna get thrown out?

Throw me out! Do not be talkin to my coach like that!

Disrespectin her! Twenty-three is ejected!

You sit down and shut up! I will punch that ref in his mouth, man!

♪

Drano, shoot it!

Shoot it! Shoot!

Drano, shoot it!

Yes! Yes!

Call time-out! Call time-out!

Foul!

Before the buzzer. Two shots.

Clear the court!

Damn! Out of everybody on the team, they had to foul him.

Why? What's the matter? He only shoots 45% from the line.

Is that bad? "Bad"? That's very bad.

Its your world, god. Knock it out.

Please, baby!

Hold it, hold it. Hold up.

Choke! Choke!

We are tied! We are tied!

Come on, man. Come on.

Choke! Choke! Choke!

Good night.

Yes!

Comin in!

You guys were "fantabulous"!

You were "superbalacious"!

It was an amazing display of what we can do...

If we play together like a team!

What is the matter with you guys? You look like you seen a ghost.

We won our first game last year. Then we lost 15 straight.

This is not last year.

We can win some games this year!

Hey, many, many. A lotta games. Like a huge amount.

That was my promise, remember?

Ach!

What do I know? I am a girl.

Why do not you guys tell me? What does it take to make a winner?

Hmm. Nobody knows.

You guys got some homework to do.

Homework? Come on. This is basketball. Homework?

Aint no homework in basketball.

Yeah, well, before the next game,

you are all responsible to bring in a quote...

About what it takes to make a winner.

Whoever does not, does not play.

That goes for everybody.

Great game. Great game.

See ya on the bus, Gus.

I do not even do homework.

I am not doin the homework.

So what's doin, huh? Can I get you somethin?

Dominic, did you know that Phyllis is coachin a guys basketball team,

and they won their first game today?

Oh, they were so great. They just ran right over the other team.

Ran right over them, huh? Anybody get hurt?

Anyway, you know, I am so proud of them.

- They are really doin great. - Hey, I bet you are a terrific coach.

You run a terrific restaurant.

Thank you. Thanks.

Hey, you guys, come on. Lets get started. Okay?

Come on. Shirts and skins. Lets get a scrimmage goin.

Coach, I gotta tell you somethin. We got a lot to do today.

Yo, coach, I gotta tell you somethin. What you got to tell me?

Busy got shot. What?

Busy.

Hi, busy. Coach!

How ya doin? Uh, coach.

Coach, you remember my mom, right? Sure. Hi, Carla.

How ya doin?

So, what happened?

Kid wanted my coat. I aint give it up, so he shot me.

A coat. Three-hundred-dollar coat, mom.

That's how come I aint give it up, coach.

It happened on the way home from the game?

Mm-hmm. He likes to take the shortcut through the park.

I was lucky I got shot with a .38.

- Why do you say that? - Cause the bullet went straight through.

If it had been a .22, it just mightve bounced or hit a bone or artery or somethin.

Doctor says its gonna be a while before I play.

That do not mean I am off the team, does it, coach?

No way, busy.

Busy is gonna be all right.

He is gonna be out for a while, but he is comin back, and he is okay.

I posted a schedule of visiting hours in my office.

- Coach, what's this? - That is a nutrient drink. Its good for you. Drink it.

Mm. Man, this stuff is nasty!

All right. Brownsville tech. Our first home game.

They were number three in our division last year. Drink up.

Who brought in their homework?

She must... She is kiddin, ya all.

Homework.

You know, quotes about what it takes to make a winner?

Yeah, right. Please!

Who brought it in? Please!

Nobody?

That's great. That's really great.

I think ya all made her mad.

♪ ♪

Yo, coach, we won! What's the matter?

That makes us 2 and 0.

You told us to teach you the game. That's what we was doin.

I am not angry about that, shorty. Hi, shorty.

What's up, Cheryl? Yo, coach. This is Cheryl.

Hi. Hi. How ya doin?

All right. Listen. You got some money?

I saw these brand-new tims the other day. They was kinda fly.

Hmm. Bet they look nice on you too, right?

Oh, you know they would.

All right.

Just do not spend this all in one place, all right, girl?

Here ya go.

Why you so sweet, huh?

Call me later, all right? All right.

Lets go, girl.

Hey, yo, coach!

Damn, what I do, man?

Coach, can I talk to you for a second? Not now. I am not in the mood.

Coach, I really need to talk to you right now. Please.

Will you speak English?

- What is that for? - I am about to go kill my teacher.

What teacher?

Mr. Bernstein. Morris.

You know, I do not blame you. I would like to kill him myself.

- What are you gonna kill him for? - Oh, you know.

I mean, its like he is always got somethin smart to say to me, right?

Its like, I had my hair braided.

And so he... so I had this wooly on my head.

When I come into the classroom, he is like, "take it off."

So I take it off.

And he started laughin at my braids.

And the whole class just started laughin at me.

He do not know me. He do not.

Spaceman.

Spaceman, I want you to put that knife in my drawer now.

Okay? Just come on over here and put it in here.

- Nah. - Yeah. Just put it in the drawer.

Come on. Put it in the drawer.

Here you go. Just put it right in there.

Thank you.

Hey, you!

Oh, Bernard, so nice to see you,

and what a lovely hairstyle we are sporting today.

What the hell do you think... Morris.

Do you see this kid? This sweet, sensitive kid?

Who? Bernard? Stop teasing him, and stop bullying him.

Bullying? I am not... Start teaching him,

and start caring about his feelings.

Do you understand me?

Yes.

Do you have anything to add, spaceman?

Science is my favorite subject, Mr. Bernstein.

I was not aware of that, Bernard. I will keep that in mind.

You better keep that in mind.

You got me, Morris? You goddamn well better.

Come on, spaceman.

Any other teachers you wanna talk to me about?

On the floor now. Everyone!

Both feet. Both feet!

- Together. - You, too, shorty.

Do not kid around, Andre. Lets go.

Happy?

- Fifteen minutes. - Whoa!

Faster.

What?

Aaah. Aaah.

♪

- Ohh. Ow. - I can do it.

Backs straight.

No cheating, spaceman. No cheating.

Fly. I can do it.

Mmm. Damn, coach.

Turn off that music. Its killing us.

♪

Three, two...

And hold and hold...

And hold and...

- Okay. - Oh, god.

Practice is gonna be like this until the homework gets done.

♪ Sunset park what time is it

♪ its time to get live its time to represent come on.

♪ Sunset park what time is it

♪ its time to get live its time to represent

♪ all right. Give the ball to butter blam, 360 slam

♪ come on. Spaceman he comes down with the jam

♪ drano, yo he goes back further

♪ with the three swish

♪ its all murder come on down to the sunset park

♪ get busy we will take you to the dark

♪ where is busy-bee nobody knows where he is at

♪ the hospital whose got their homework? ♪

Man!

Man.

Winnin is phat and all of that,

and losin is whack and bosack.

Who said that?

Sir Dante al-Hassan.

Drano?

Yeah, I said it.

The more you win, the more girls you get... except shortys.

- Yeah, word up, man. - James radar.

Butter said that?

How about you, spaceman? Did you bring your homework?

Um, well, if I had me some new glasses,

I would make all my shots, and we would win all our games.

Leonard, um, montubo. Busy-bee?

Yeah, I went to see him in the hospital.

You guys are idiots. You know that? No, he is an idiot.

So what's up? Can we go play this game now or what?

- Lets play. - On the count of three. What's up?

Lets do it.

All right.

Come on, coach. Put your hand in.

Uno, dos, tres. Represent!

♪ Yeah. What time is it? Sunset park what time is it

♪ its time to get live its time to represent ♪

Butter, come on. Over here.

Butter, pass the ball.

Hey, butter, call time-out. Your mother made bail.

All right. Lets go. Come on, sunset.

Damn.

Ya all for yourself, butter man!

Yo, coach. This stupid ass is never gonna pass the ball!

Wrong. I will punch you in the face.

Hey! Hey! Coach, you have to control your players.

You are in. You do not even want it, man.

Butter, sit down. Sit down! What about him?

I wanna talk to you. Come on. Get your ass on the floor.

It aint nothin. Come on. Lets go.

You are our best player, our star. We ca not win without you. You know that, right?

You need to tell shorty that. Forget shorty.

Look at those pretty young ladies up there.

You score five or you score twenty,

its not gonna matter.

They are gonna love you anyway.

Relax. You do not have to try so hard. You know why?

Why? You are butter.

You got that thing the girls like, and that has nothin to do with basketball.

Take it from me. I am a girl.

I got eyes.

You are butter.

Now what you gotta do...

Is focus on the team.

"I am playin ball for the team." All right?

All right. Okay?

You got it. Mm-hmm. I got it.

All right. All right, sunset!

All right. Come on!

Big "w" today, kid. Yo. You got... yeah.

Okay, great game, great game. Go home. Go to bed, boys.

Honey, I am goin. Yes, go.

Shorty? Huh?

Gotta talk to you about your temper, okay? I mean, I depend on you.

You know? You gotta be there for me. All right. I know, I know.

Hey, coach, can I ask you a question?

Yeah. Say you was a girl, right?

I am a girl. Nah, nah. I mean a girl like my age.

Right. And there was this guy that really liked you.

Right. He bought you stuff,

but he never tried to get nothin from you, right?

Right. Would you think he was a sucker...

Or just a nice guy?

I know less about that stuff than I know about basketball, shorty.

I invited Cheryl to the game, and she did not even show up.

That girl from the other day? Cheryl? Oh, man. That's too bad.

But I wrote her a letter.

Since you are a girl, I want you to let me know if its corny or not.

Would you read it? Okay.

All right.

Temper.

Temper.

Dear Cheryl... if I got one wish in this world,

I would not wish to be taller.

I would not wish to be bigger. I would wish that you was my girl, and I was your nigger.

I love you more than anfernee hardaway.

I wish we could get together and go real far away...

In the woods and take hikes...

And we could make love under the stars.

You could act like pluto, and I could act like Mars.

Just you and me, together forever, forever together.

Nothin could be better. Love, shorty doo-wop.

Here you go. Hey, coach.

Hey, shorty. What's up? Have you read my letter?

Oh, yes. This is a really good letter, shorty.

Word. So you think I should give it to her?

Does she deserve it? You saw her.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, give it to her.

Hey, coach, you like Bruce Lee flicks, right?

Oh, yeah, I like karate movies, period.

I was thinkin maybe me and you could go to the movies together.

Are you askin me on a date?

You know what I am sayin, coach. Come on.

Get out of here.

Hey, shorty.

What's up?

Pull your pants up and turn your hat around.

Cute kid, huh? Yeah.

Phil, can I have a word with you? Yeah.

James radar. Butter.

Dante al-Hassan. Drano.

They are failing off the team.

They are failing off the team?

Its not just baby-sitting, Phyllis. This is a school.

You should be aware of that. Its part of the goddamn job, Phil.

Its part of the goddamn job. Maybe you should have told me that a little sooner, Lou.

Phil, you wanted the job. They are off the team until they get grades.

Lou!

Spot me one markin period, okay? They will do the work. I promise.

One marking period.

"Its not just baby-sitting, Phil."

All right, all right, listen up.

I got one player shot up at the hospital.

I got two players who are failing off this team.

When I checked into their records,

one of them... Drano...

Passes every test but never goes to class.

What, shorty? Dranofs a brainiac. Everybody know that.

So why do not you go to class?

Its boring. Hey!

Ow, coach! That's abuse!

Hey, we need your jump shot.

Now butter over here...

Goes to class but has yet to hand in any homework.

Butter be tryin to get girls to do his homework, but they stupid.

They aint stupid, man. They just be lunchin. They are lazy tricks.

What did you say? Uh, girls. I mean girls. Sorry, coach.

Hey, yo, coach, I help butter with his homework. Good.

I am gonna do my own homework, man. I aint stupid.

No, you are not stupid, butter, and you can prove that by

I have another player... Spaceman...

Who gets stoned every day and is on probation.

Spoke to his probation officer, who said he is already failed

one more and he will do time.

Look, coach, I do not appreciate you puttin my business

that's the way it is, spaceman.

No, no, I do not appreciate you puttin my business in the street, coach.

Look, I worry about you. I do not wanna see you locked up.

- Spaceman smoke blunts just to keep him mellow. - Why do not you shut up?

He got a psycho temper. That's why he got in trouble in the first place.

Why you puttin my business in the street? Sit down!

I am sorry, man. Chill. You know I got love for you.

- Sit down! - I got another player... shorty...

Who is also on probation for selling pot,

and he better stay the hell out of trouble.

This is how its gonna be from now on on this team.

I am checkin homework and attendance every day.

If you skip a class, you do not play.

Spaceman, if I look into your eyes and I even think the wrong thing,

you are off this team, period.

Anyone who thinks I am jokin, try me.

We gotta start makin some sacrifices for the goddamn good of this team...

Or we are not gonna have a team.

Okay, look. If 2x equals 42,

then what does 3x plus 5 equal?

B, that's what get me. How a letter gonna equal a number?

Do not make no sense, b. Look, look, look, look.

Okay, I got it. Check this out.

Say you got two honeys, right? Right.

And you gotta buy both of them a chicken, right?

Right. Now you gonna buy these two chickens,

and for two chickens, it costs $42, right?

Right. So, what is three chickens plus five dollars?

What's the five dollars for? The hotel.

Right! Right!

All right. Okay, hold on. I am with you here.

Three chickens. Mm-hmm.

Three honeys. And a hotel? Mm-hmm. And a hotel.

That's $68.

Its like butter, baby. Ah, yes!

- Damn! - Its all right. Its okay.

My bad, my bad.

- Drano! - Set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up.

Drano!

D amn!

Back on "d"! Back! Down! Come on! Move! Move!

I am tellin you, man. Go in her office. What you see on the wall?

What? That picture of Bruce Lee with his shirt off, kid.

So what?

So coach like brothers, b.

Bruce Lee is Chinese, stupid.

Bruce Lee is half black, half Chinese, kid.

Look at his name, man... Bruce Lee.

That's a black mans name, brother.

Man, you stupid. I am stupid?

B, he half black. I seen it in one of them movies.

How the hell you know?

Remember the color purple?

Oh, my god!

Ya all sit here and listen to this garbage, man.

Oh, hello. Yo, look whose back from the dead. What's up, busy?

- Yo, b! - What's up?

The boy is back. Hey, you all healed up or what?

Ah, you know, I am all right, baby.

You know we aint lost a game without you.

No question. Coach be tellin me about every game, yo.

Hey, you still got that bullet in you, kid? Bullet went straight through.

Let me see the scar.

Nah.

Come on, man!

Damn! Damn!

Busy, you are startin today.

All right, all right, on the count of three.

- One, two, three. - Represent!

Go, busy! Go, busy!

Yeah! Busy! Busy!

Yes! Busy!

Do you believe we clinched the conference title?

I mean, we are 15 and 3!

You know, sometimes I lay in bed and night,

and I think, "we won 15 games!"

What's the matter?

Why are you so quiet?

Funny hangin out with me after school, huh?

Oh, no.

Then what?

What's it like to be white?

What kind of question is that?

Is there any black people where you live, in your building?

No.

Any white people where you live?

No.

Where do you live?

- Albany projects. - Oh, yeah. What's that like?

There is Mr. Dunbar, right?

Jamaican guy. Goes to work every day for the transit.

Then there is Mr. Collins. He drinks liquor all day, never had a job in his life.

They both live in the same projects. They both live the same life.

Makes you think, "why even work?"

I stay up at night sometimes knowin basketball do not mean nothin.

School do not mean nothin.

If I work, if I do not work, it do not mean nothin.

I am gonna end up dead in the same projects anyway.

So why even bother, right?

You could do somethin, you know.

I mean, you could go to college.

College? Aint none of my people stupid, coach,

but aint none of us think about college.

Why is that?

I do not know.

Do white people have that same mentality?

I always thought I would go to college.

You know, that's just part of what everybody around me did.

I mean, like in school, when they said...

I could grow up and be a woman president,

the first woman president, I believed it.

You crazy, coach.

So why you not married?

Do not ask questions like that. Why not?

Its not nice to ask a woman questions like that.

- So you wanna know a secret about me? - No.

Forget you then.

Come on. Nah, that's all right.

Oh, come on, shorty.

I am a virgin.

You are?

I am 17, coach. Oh!

That's sweet. I was in college...

Yeah, well, I think I am gonna die before I even get some.

Hey, I bet there is a lot of girls that like you.

Yeah. Too bad I never like the ones that like me.

That's exactly like me. I mean, like there is this guy, Dominic.

Son of a bitch. After the first night, he never called.

Well, that's his bad, coach.

There is one thing good in my life, though.

Word, what's that?

- None of the others guys knows this... - Come on, man.

Okay.

I am gonna move to St. Croix to open a restaurant.

When? After the season, of course.

Why you gonna do that?

Well,

like, all my life, I thought I was gonna be great at somethin, you know?

And then one day, I wake up, and I am mediocre at everything.

I just gotta try somethin new.

So you aint gonna be our coach no more?

Well, its not until next year.

Go on. Eat your food.

So this whole thing is a big joke to you, right?

- What are you talkin about? - I am talkin about coachin black kids in basketball.

Makin some extra cash.

This whole thing is a big fuckin joke to you, right?

No, its not like that.

- Where are you going? - Listen.

I aint the one frontin, miss.

This thing right here sees right through you.

Shorty.

Hey, busy, check it. Check it, man.

That reporter asked me what role did I play as busy-bee in clinchin the division.

Whatd you say? I said I will be stayin busy, baby.

They are gonna say to me, you know, they look at my lifestyle...

And automatically assume that I am a pimp.

Ahh, ahh! What? What?

Who that over there lyin? There you go again.

Like I am not a pimp. What?

I am gonna tell you right now how to check it, right? I am on the subway.

Honey dip is sittin across from me, starin all up between my legs and junk.

Said I am a freak, all right? Put my hand on it, right? And I looked at her.

She came, yo, right there.

I am tellin you. She had a full-blown orgasm right on the subway.

- This dude is havin delusions again. - Hey, yo, I believe him, man.

Thank you. The same thing happened to me last week.

Except I was on the bus, though.

Comin in! Coach in the house.

Hi.

What's up, coach? You read my quote?

Yes, I got it framed in my office right next to Bruce Lee.

All right. Hey, coach, you read my quote?

Yeah, I read everybody is quote. Where is shorty?

Word up. Aint seen him.

What's up with that? We got the final game of the season in half an hour.

I think we should put our hands together and pray, ya all.

Somebody roll this kid a blunt, quick.

Mm-hmm. All right, five minutes, in the gym.

Hey, yo, coach. Shorty told me to tell you he ca not make it to the game.

Well, where is he? Rikers island.

Man, that eye looks so bad. Have you seen a doctor?

They get you a doctor in here?

What happened?

Shorty, my best friend is the best criminal lawyer in Brooklyn.

She could really help you. You gotta talk to me.

Come on!

They said I tried to shoot somebody.

Did you?

No.

So why didthey say you did?

This kid in my crew tried to shoot somebody,

and they caught me out there with his gun.

I am gonna get you out of here.

I am gonna get you out. You hear me?

Whatever.

Case 1475, state v. Russell.

Mr. Russell, have a seat right over here.

- Good morning, your honor. - To what do we owe the pleasure, Ms. Blum?

What we have here is a clear miscarriage of justice...

On behalf of Mr. Tareek Russell.

This young man is a decent student, a star basketball player,

and he shows up for all his probation appointments and therapy.

It says here he is in violation of a number of conditions of his parole.

I have reason to believe he may be involved in more serious criminal activities.

No, that's impossible, judge.

And you are?

Um, I am Phyllis saroka, shortys coach.

You see, on the night of the crime, shorty was actually at the movies with me.

I have ticket stubs and witnesses who can testify.

You are aware that perjury is a crime, are you not, Ms. Saroka?

Your honor, may I approach the bench?

Certainly, Ms. Blum. Thank you.

The other kid involved in this has not shown up to any of the proceedings.

He has three outstanding warrants and a felony.

Tareek is a good kid.

Mr. Russell, its not good enough to be a little good,

to stand a little on this side of the fence, a little on that,

to go to school and carry a gun, to play basketball and sell drugs.

You do understand what I am talking about, Mr. Russell, do not you?

Yes, madam.

In my courtroom, you had better be all good or its good-bye.

I will throw you to the wolves, and I promise you,

they are there, waiting for you.

Probation is a privilege. Do you hear me?

Yes, madam.

It is not to be abused.

At the moment, I am impressed by your counsels arguments,

so I am restoring your probation.

Now that means that I do not expect to hear another word

about you gettin into trouble.

Thank you, your honor.

Case number 1476, state v. Bovano.

Yeah, b, I knew you was out there.

You are all right.

Is everybody here?

Okay, nothin different today. We are playin coney.

I know they are the reigning Brooklyn champs five years in a row.

This is our first time here, okay?

I am okay with that. I do not want anybody thinkin about...

If we win this game, we go on to Madison square garden to

play for the city championships.

Okay? Cause that's not what's important.

What's important is we got this far, and we got shorty back.

Shorty, I need you with me 100%.

I am here.

All right. If we lose tonight, we had a great season.

If we win tonight, we win respect,

and we go on to Madison square garden to play for the city championship!

Yeah! Get one in, get one in, get one in.

On three. One, two, three. Represent!

Shorty, the game is out there.

Come on, kid! Two, baby.

You too small, kid. You ca not guard me. What's up? What's up?

I told you, you too small. That's not what your girl said.

You ca not guard me. You are too small.

Look at it. Shorty, come on.

Damn.

You ca not hold me, kid. Yeah, whatever, man. Whatever.

Shorty! Get back in the game!

You are in for shorty.

I do not care if the friggin popes mother is in the audience.

You do not do that, you got me?

Lets go, ya all. Lets do this.

Coach, can I play now?

Sit down. Lets go! Lets go!

Damn.

Coach, you gotta let me play.

Shorty, if you do not sit down, you are not gonna play for the rest of the game.

Do you understand me?

All right, all right. We got 18 seconds left. We can do this.

Shorty, you are in.

I aint goin in.

- What? - You heard me. Ya all go on without me.

All right, Andre, its on you.

Hold for the last shot. Back-door play to butter.

Lets do this.

Come on. One, two, three. Represent!

I ought to kick your motherfuckin...

I will put two in the back of your head, nigger.

What are you doin, kid?

Hey!

- Shut up, honky. - Shorty! I do not know what the hell is gotten into you,

but I do not want that on this team.

I do not wanna be on this team anyway. This team aint shit!

You do not know a goddamn thing about coaching!

Get out of here, right now. I aint goin nowhere.

Why do not you get me out? Aint none of these bitch-ass niggers here kickin my ass.

- I will put two in the nigger head! - You aint shit, man!

- You are a bitch-ass nigger! I better never see you around. - You a bitch from day one!

Quit it! Stop it! Shorty! Guess what?

That kid they said I tried to shoot? It was me.

How you feel now? Like a sucker, right?

Cause that's just what you are.

Ya all think the coach is all that, right? She do not

give a fuck about none of ya all.

She is out after this season. She is leavin to open up a restaurant.

That's how two-faced she is.

As of this moment, you are no longer on this team.

Now get the hell out of here. That's all right.

I am gonna get my girl, take her home and get mad busy.

The rest of ya all niggers, ya all be cool.

- Word to mother. - You just a punk.

Cheryl!

Cheryl!

Do not be callin my name out all loud like that. What's wrong with you?

You just come here?

Yo, whose that? Your little brother? No.

He act like my little brother. Lets get out of here.

Why do not you step in the Jeep? I am cool with that.

I got somethin to show you when we get home, baby. Lets go.

Cheryl, could we just go, please?

Shorty, ca not you see I am conversatin?

Yo, I do not think she want to talk to you, shortstop.

Step out of the Jeep, nigger.

I think you better tell your friend...

That his mouth about to buy him somethin that his ass ca not afford.

Can we just go?

I am not through talkin.

Anyway... why is Bumblebee junior still standin there?

I do not know why. He is... a kid.

You know what? You aint nothin but a trick.

Ya all two have fun. I am out of here.

I had a feeling he was guilty, but you were so goddamn

positive that your shorty was perfect.

I was wrong, okay? Once again, I was wrong.

Yeah, but this time, you got me involved in your

meshugass, and I do not like I t.

What the hell do you want from me, Barbara?

You know what you do? You invent people,

and the people that you invent in your mind...

Have nothing to do with reality.

Thank you, Sigmund Freud. Like Ronnie.

You knew the guy a month. He was the best thing since sliced bread.

You let him move him, and we all know what happened after that.

And Dominic? You sleep with the guy on the first date.

Then you are surprised that there is no relationship!

I do not have to listen to this. As if I do not beat myself up enough!

No, you do not! You do not have to do anything,

but goddamn it, Phyllis, shorty is not an adult.

You broke the rules. You got involved in his life,

and you ca not bail out on him just because he is not who you imagined him to be.

Phyllis!

The fourth quarter underway.

And the Knicks lead 69-67.

Hey, Eddie.

Hey.

You know the score?

Yeah, I know the score.

I know the goddamn score. I am not no joanie-come-lately.

We are here with the surprising cavaliers. Get it?

Get it? Joanie-come-lately?

A nd the Knicks lead 69-67.

Its a joke.

Little son of a bitch. What are you doing here? Chill, coach. Just chill out.

I have got a good mind to kick your goddamn ass. You are hyper, coach.

You wanna fight me? You wanna fight or not? Stop! I do not fight girls.

You know, you are a goddamn liar, that's what you are.

You lie like a goddamn persian rug. A persian rug?

Yeah, a persian rug, you son of a bitch.

I stuck my neck out for the last time.

So does this mean I am not back on the team? You!

Want some beer?

For your information, I do not drink.

Me neither.

Coach, why you bench me like that?

Why did I bench you? Why did you lie to me?

I lied to you cause I was stupid.

So what the hell goddamned happened then? The truth.

You know that trick Cheryl? That ugly girl that I was enamored with?

"Enamored"? This kid hit her.

So what? So she came to me for protection.

And me bein a no-nonsense nigger, I ran up on the kid.

He pulled out a gun, so I pulled out a gun.

I tried to shoot him, and I missed.

Them police must have been around the corner, cause when I ran, they got me...

Just like that.

I can not believe you did that! Coach, I was scared.

I thought he was gonna shoot me.

Well, so now is he gonna try and shoot you?

I do not know.

I just... I loved her, coach. She played me.

I am the biggest sucker I know.

Now all I got is this team.

I aint even got that no more. I ca not do nothin right.

Oh, get off the cross. We need the wood.

Coach, you gotta put me back on this team.

I would not piss on you if your ass was on fire.

Well, you aint so perfect either.

You are a great coach, and you do not even know it. That's how stupid you are.

Talkin about you wanna be great at somethin.

You are a great coach.

Little boys should not drink, cause all kinds of garbage starts flowin to the surface.

Coach, you gotta let me back on the team.

- I aint askin her nothin. - You are a punk.

You a punk. You ask her then.

I do not really care.

Drano. Uh, nigger, do not even try that.

I aint askin her nothin. Nigger man, I am gonna ask her. Shh. I am gonna ask.

Hey, coach.

Yeah.

Me and the fellas wanted to know...

If after the game, you was gonna leave us.

We are gonna be playing a championship game in front of a lot of people.

That is all this team should be focused on right now.

Ahh!

Yo, I got somethin to say, man.

I flipped out. I bugged out on ya all,

and I was wrong.

I just wanna know if we still peoples.

I got somethin to say too, b.

Busy, you got that thing? All ready to go.

Took up a collection, you know what I am sayin? Got $3.50.

To go with the "help buy shorty some punany" fund.

Stupid! Welcome back, baby.

Oh, you stupid, guys.

Shorty wop.

What's up?

Hey.

Lets play ball. Lets go, ya all.

Sunset park!

Number 33, center, James radar.

Number 23, guard Leonard montubo.

Number one, tareek Russell.

Number 32, Bernard Williams. Number 44, Andre Johnson.

And number three...

For Washington heights, number four...

- Number 11, Billy Reed. Number 23... - How do you do?

Hi. Good luck. Thank you.

And number 34, Johnny Rogers.

And the game is underway. Washington heights gets the ball.

You are on defense! Pick up your man!

- Number four... - Come on! Set it up! Take your time!

Slide, baby. Get back on "d." Back on "d."

Number 34, Johnny Rogers.

Oh, my god.

Set it up, shorty. Play smart! Play smart!

Get control! Get control!

Why?

Come on!

Come on, come on. Damn!

Aw, come on!

Damn, man.

What the hell are you doin? What are you doin?

- Call time-out! Shorty! - Time-out, time-out, time-out.

Time-out is called by sunset park.

Yo, yo, we gots to maintain. We can beat these niggers, man.

On Tuesday night,

look, this team, Washington heights,

thinks that we are the same team that played them on the

first scrimmage game of this year.

- Do you think we are? - Naw, naw.

No, I do not think so either. The thing about this team is...

They play very controlled like.

Yeah, they about fundamentals. We ca not beat them at that.

Word up, baby. We gotta make them play ou r game. Yeah, that's what I am sayin.

Lets take them to the park, baby.

One, two, three. Represent!

- Come on, baby. Word up. What time it is? - Right.

- Stay on them! Stay on them! - Everybody, pull yourself together, man.

♪

Foul on number 14.

Not parkay. Not margarine. Butter!

Number 33, James radar, at the line, hits the foul shot.

- Yes! - Hey, sunset! You can do it!

♪

Do it, do it, do it!

I want you to get in there and make somebody nervous.

Go wait over there.

Number 23, Leonard montubo.

Busy!

All right!

What! What, what!

Bring it down! Bring it down!

Number 33, James radar.

Washington heights leads sunset park, 57-51,

with 3:13 remaining here in the fourth.

Number 22,

Dante al-Hassan.

Dante al-Hassan for two.

Its gettin close.

- Aw, geez. - A five-point lead.

Dante al-Hassan for three!

Okay, number five. Butter and Andre.

Double screen for drano. Okay, this is it! This is it, baby.

Reverse it!

Shot! Go, Andre!

Oh, no!

Oh, come on, ref. Where the foul, man?

Oh! Oh! Shorty!

Get in there! Get it to drano!

Damn!

The m.V.P. Ceremony will begin shortly. The m.V.P. From Washington heights:

- Damn! - Number 34, center, tally masur.

Washington heights won 62 to 60.

I hate to lose.

I am used to losing. I lost a lot.

Its easy for me to do, even though I hate it.

Here is the thing, okay?

When you are used to failure, like I am,

it is so easy to dismiss everything that you have accomplished.

I am not doin that anymore.

I refuse to let us do that.

We are comin back next year, and we are gonna destroy those guys.

We are gonna wipe the floor with them.

We are going to annihilate that team.

Right here.

You gonna come back, coach?

Yeah, I am comin back.

What about the restaurant in the islands?

Screw it. I ca not even cook.

Okay, here is the thing. I want everybody in summer school,

summer leagues, 300 jump shots a day.

Three hundred jump shots a day? That's right.

Summer school?

That's right.

If we are gonna go all the way, we gotta start takin ourselves seriously.

- Next year, nobody has under an 85 average. - Eighty-five?

Now you are reachin. I see the jump shots, but you are reachin.

Oh, no! You guys think I am kidding.

Uh-uh. You are all expected to go to college.

And not for basketball. For life.

Look at me, you guys.

You walk out of here with your heads up.

You hear me?

You are as good as anybody.

And you deserve to have as good a life as anybody.

You are smart, and you are disciplined.

And I love you.

You know we got love for you, too, coach.

Yeah, I am glad you are stayin, coach. Word up.

♪ Its time to get live its time to represent

♪ sunset park, what time is it

♪ its time to get live its time to represent

♪ sunset park what time is it

♪ its time to get live its time to represent

♪ sunset park what time is it

♪ its time to get live its time to represent

♪ sunset park what time is it

♪ its time to get live its time to represent

♪ sunset park what time is it

♪ its time to get live its time to represent ♪

So what's gonna happen now, shorty doo-wop?

I am gonna be all right... I hope.

I hope so too.

I will see you. Yeah.

Hey, shorty!

Pull your pants up and turn your hat around.

♪

♪ A lot of things have changed look at shorty wop now

♪ he used to turn his hat around and wear his pants

♪ got to learn from your mistakes he is on a break

♪ he had to find the true people separate them from the fakes

♪ life is so confusing you ca not win for losing

♪ thought he saw a victory but it was only an illusion

♪ cause he was under a plan a plan to fail

♪ he flipped on his coach who got his ass out of jail

♪ and now he regretted how he was hardheaded

♪ but when she come back next year, they are gonna

♪ say, yo, sunset park what time is it

♪ its time to get live its time to represent

♪ life goes on and on and on and it do not stop

♪ life goes on and on and on and it do not stop

♪ life goes on and on and on and it do not stop

♪ life goes on and on and on and it do not stop

♪ life goes on and on and on and it do not stop

♪ life goes on and on and on and it do not stop

♪ life goes on and on and on and it do not stop

♪ life goes down, down

♪ gotta live life to the fullest

♪ life is only what you make it

♪ it just do not stop day after day after day after day after day

♪ man, it do not stop

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